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Christmas season celebrations in Australia - Australia's Culture PortalProtestant and Roman Catholic churches hold Christmas Day services on 25 December. The Eastern churches - the Ethiopian Orthodox church, Russian Orthodox church and the Armenian church - celebrate Christmas on 6 or 7 January. Christmas is the celebratio...
But Australia has a significant and untameable high country where another set of Australian myths and traditions of Australian identity were born - the high country of the Snowy Mountains. The Man from Snowy River is one of Australia's most famous poems ...
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and let them read your article as a good example of what I call the reader's writer, clearly expressed and easy to read. Whether by design or accident, this took place on what was then Christmas Eve, so the tradition of having a fir tree at Christmas was...
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Queensland Museum Annual Report 2005 2006 Queensland Museum Our Vision To be valued as an innovative, exciting and accessible museum of science, environment and human achievement, of international standing. Working Together Queensland Museum establishes...
This week Margaret and David discuss the Australian film Wolf Creek with accompanying interviews with the director Greg McLean and actor Cassandra Magrath. The man of steel is back in Superman Returns, the first film to be reviewed this week on the telev...
Produced by the Melbourne Underground Rail Loop Authority, this documentary promotes the Melbourne Underground Rail Loop as a way of meeting Melbourne s growing public transport needs. Filmed by John Mack at the Adelaide Parafield around 1930, this home ...
Filmmaker Mike Rubbo takes 105-year-old Olive Riley back to her childhood home in Broken Hill, western NSW, to talk about her life. This documentary follows several indigenous people of New Guinea as they attempt to earn cash by selling the psychoactive ...
HC Coombs is interviewed about his life and work by the current affairs journalist Robert Moore. A black-and-white nature program from the earliest years of ABC television featuring the unique lyrebird. Opera Australia,Äôs OzOpera Tour took the opera La ...
This list shows all the titles currently on australianscreen that include Geraldine Doogue in a principal role. Turkish immigrants to Australia in the 1970s immediately felt connected through the Anzac Day marches but found they were forbidden to march w...
Compass is produced by the ABC,Äôs Religious and Ethics Department and broadcast on Sunday nights at 10 pm, 52 weeks a year. Compass explores issues of faith, values, ethics and religion in Australia and around the world. Compass aims to illuminate the ...
This week Margaret and David discuss the Australian film Wolf Creek with accompanying interviews with the director Greg McLean and actor Cassandra Magrath. The man of steel is back in Superman Returns, the first film to be reviewed this week on the telev...
This list shows all the titles currently on australianscreen that include David Jowsey in a principal role. Marn Grook details Indigenous involvement in AFL since the game,Äôs beginning. Cathleen Mills (nee McGuiness) is a respected Indigenous elder of D...
Daddy Cool, a successful Australian rock band of the 1970s, perform their music including the famous Eagle Rock. Frank Bourke is ,ÄòThe White Rose,Äô the dance band known and loved throughout country New South Wales. Filmed during the 1995 Tamworth Count...
This film documents the 1896 Melbourne Cup horse race including footage of the crowd watching the race. This home movie footage, filmed mostly by Ernest Higgins, includes scenes of a family picnic at Mt Wellington, Christmas celebrations, children,Äôs bir...
This list shows all the titles currently on australianscreen that include Peter Kirkwood in a principal role. Every year, 700 amateur singers come together to perform Handel s Messiah at the Sydney Town Hall. Australians are making their way in increasi...
In this program the Chauvels, on a filmmaking safari of Australia, are travelling through the Northern Territory. A black-and-white nature program from the earliest years of ABC television featuring the unique lyrebird. On this week s Backchat, viewers w...
Please Update to latest version of Internet Explorer or Netscape. Santa, can I please have... Cairns Taipans player, Dwayne Vale, is looking forward to catching up with his family for Christmas and bringing the New Year in style with his girlfriend in tow...
This list shows all the titles currently on australianscreen that include Rose Hesp in a principal role. Every year, 700 amateur singers come together to perform Handel s Messiah at the Sydney Town Hall. Craig Hamilton was a very successful sports comme...
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